Showing 1 - 10 of 82
This study examines how the economic effects of elections in rural China depend on voter heterogeneity, for which we proxy with religious fractionalization. We first document religious composition and the introduction of village-level elections for a nearly nationally representative sample of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089285
models of most existing analyses, however, lead to conerns about the policy evaluations. In our general equilibrium model of …. With both centralized and decentralized employment, the resulting equilibrium has heterogeneous communities in terms of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777390
This paper presents an experiment where 48 Indonesian villages were randomly assigned to choose development projects through either representative-based meetings or direct election-based plebiscites. Plebiscites resulted in dramatically higher satisfaction among villagers, increased knowledge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759113
This paper presents a new model of political competition where candidates belong to factions. Before elections, factions compete to direct local public goods to their local constituencies. The model of factional competition delivers a rich set of implications relating the internal organization...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760206
This paper aims to show that culture is an important determinant of the effectiveness of formal democratic institutions, such as elections. We collect new data to document the presence of voluntary and social organizations and the history of electoral reforms in Chinese villages. We use the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024882
This paper analyzes the importance of local interaction between individuals of different linguistic groups for the provision of public goods at the national level. The micro-founded conceptual framework we develop predicts that a country's public goods (i) decrease in its overall linguistic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012916911
Research over the past several years has led to development of models characterizing equilibrium in a system of local … strong predictions about the equilibrium distribution of households across communities. To date predictions have not been … this class of models. We first test conditions for locational equilibrium implied by these models. In particular about the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013215352
public goods equilibrium (if it exists) is efficient; more generally, however, competitive local public goods equilibria may … goods or "bads" provided. Not only is it the case that not every competitive equilibrium is Pareto optimal, but not every … Pareto efficient allocation can be sustained by a competitive local public goods equilibrium (with the appropriate lump sum …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013216522
necessary conditions implied by majority rule in a general equilibrium model of residential choice. The estimator controls for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218313
Black households in the United States with high levels of income and education (SES) typically face a stark tradeoff when deciding where to live. They can choose neighborhoods with high levels of public goods or a high proportion of blacks, but very few neighborhoods combine both, a fact we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013231445